TONY KASHANI
E-mail: tony@tonykashani.com
Website: www.tonykashani.com
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Humanities with concentration in Transformative Learning and Change
California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco
M.A. in Cinema Studies
San Francisco State University
B.A. in Broadcast and Electronic Communication Art with concentration in
Radio and Television
San Francisco State University
DISSERTATION
“Cinema for Transformation: Towards a Pedagogy of Social Change”
MASTER’S THESIS
“The Emergence of the New Iranian Cinema in the West”
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, Visual Culture, Media Studies, Ethics, Digital Filmmaking/Photography, Global Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, Philosophy & Psychology of Art, East-West Philosophy/Psychology, Postcolonial Theory, Political Philosophy, Cosmopolitanism, Planetary Complexity, Film History, Electronic Media and Social Justice, Curriculum Design, Digital Communication Theory, Mass Communications, Qualitative Research Methods, Critical Pedagogy, Cyber Journalism
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
SME (Subject Matter Expert)/Faculty, Media, Social Justice, Diversity, Communications, Adler University:
Course development and curriculum design
Adjunct Faculty, Humanities and Media Studies, Brandman University of Chapman University System:
Art, Technolong and Culture (online), Ways of Knowing, Digital Humanities, Writing for New Media
Adjunct Faculty, Humanities, Southern New Hampshire University:
Diversity, Global Society, Advance Humanities (online)
Adjunct Faculty, Media Studies, Santa Rosa College:
Mass Communication Studies, Film History & Criticism
Adjunct Faculty, PhD Program in Humanities and Culture, Union Institute and University:
Visual Culture (Advance PhD Seminar), Engaging Difference: Diversity Theories (Core PhD Seminar), New Media & Social Change (Advance PhD Seminar), Dissertation Committee Advising
Associate Professor (Adjunct), Language Arts Division, College of San Mateo:
Introduction to Film, Film History, Screenwriting, American Culture/Cinema, Digital Experimental Filmmaking, Film Noir, World Cinema, Middle-Eastern Cinema
External Dissertation Reader/Advisor, School of Education
Fielding Graduate University
Guest Lecturer, Hutchins School of Liberal Arts, Sonoma State University:
Transformative Learning and Change, Media and Social Justice
Lecturer, Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University:
Introduction to Cinema Studies, Critical Studies
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Movies Change Lives: A Pedagogy of Constructive Humanistic Transformation Through Cinema
2016 Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 978-1-4331-2773-1
Lost in the Media: Ethics of Everyday Life
2013 Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 978-1-4331-1366-6
Hollywood’s Exploited: Corporate Movies, Public Pedagogy and Cultural Crisis
Co-editor and Contributor, 2010 Palgrave MacMillan Press
ISBN 978-0-230-62199-2
Deconstructing the Mystique: An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Cinema
Kendall/Hunt Publishing
2nd Edition, 2009 ISBN 978-0-7575-6023-1
1st Edition, 2005 ISBN 0-7575-1940-7
Papers in Journals and Chapters in Books
Bob Dylan and the Ethics of Market Fascism
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/21853-bob-dylan-and-the-ethics-of-market-fascism
Bob Dylan and the Ethics of Market Fascism
Ethics of Uprising in the Age of New Media.
World Futures Journal of General Evolution. Under review (peer-reviewed)
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713393663
From Plato’s Cave: Giroux and Critical Pedagogy.
Policy Futures in Education, Forthcoming, Spring 2012 issue (peer-reviewed) http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pfie/)
Hollywood and Nonhuman Animals: Problematic Ethics of Corporate Cinema.
Chapter in Hollywood’s Exploited: Corporate Movies, Public Pedagogy and Cultural Crisis
2010, Palgrave MacMillan Press ISBN 978-0-230-62199-2
Hollywood’s Cinema of Ableism: A Disability Studies Perspective on the Hollywood.
Chapter in Hollywood’s Exploited: Corporate Movies, Public Pedagogy and Cultural Crisis
2010, Palgrave MacMillan Press ISBN 978-0-230-62199-2
Dissident Cinema: Defying the Logic of Globalization. Chapter in Global Studies Association 2007 Annual Book (peer-reviewed)
(2008. Changemaker Press).
300: Proto-fascism and Manufacturing of Complicity
www.dissidentvoice.org Published April, 2007
Under review at Film Quarterly
Complex Cinema: Becoming Dissident Cinema
www.dissidentvoice.org Published January, 2007
The Truman Show: Cinema of Active Imagination. A Jungian Analysis.
CG Jung Center www.cgjungpage.org Published July, 2005Translated to French & published in Les Cahiers Jungiens de Psychanalyse, France, 2007ISBN 9782915781137
Hollywood an Agent of Hegemony: The War Film
Alternative Press Review (August 2004)
Dissident Voice (www.dissidentvoice.org August 2004)
Translated to Polish & published in Kultura popularna Journal, Poland, 2005
Translated to Farsi & Published in Golestaneh Scholarly Journal, Iran, 2007
Faces of Islam: Debunking Orientalism, Why I am not a terrorist
College Newspaper: College of San Mateo (April 2004)
Digital Media:Two Emerging Philosophies
Cinema Trade: Monthly Magazine in Tehran, Iran (April 2003 issue)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Guest Speaker, Engaging the Other: The Power of Compassion. Common Bond Institute, 5th Annual Conference at Sonoma State University
Presentation: The representation of Muslims in the West and Cultural Transformation (November 20, 2010)
Guest Speaker, Modern Media Dialogue Series at Sonoma State University
Neoliberalism and the Media
February 10, 2010 http://mediadialogueseries.org/studio.html
Guest Speaker, Diversity in Action Group at College of San Mateo
Palestine/Israel: Conflict with Global Implications
Film Screening (Occupation 101), analysis, and Dialogue (May, 2009)
Guest Lecturer, Union University EdD Program
Media and Media Culture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HJWkK3pKbk
Lecturer, Radical Philosophy Association Eight Biennial Conference,
San Francisco State University.
Presentation: “Cinema For Transformation: Towards a Pedagogy of Social Change”
(November, 2008)
Lecturer, Women Studies Department, San Francisco State University.
Lecture Series in Feminisim.
Presentation: “Representation of Women in Hollywood: Backlash against Feminism since Reaganism” (October, 2008)
Lecturer, Global Studies Annual Conference, UC Irvine.
Contested Terrains of Globalization.
Presentation: “Experimental Cinema of Complexity, The Internet and Their Global Implications” (May 2007)
Lecturer, CCHA Pacific-Western Division, Annual Conference, Los Angeles.
Paper Delivered, “Mississipi Masala: An Inquiry into Meaning of Home” (November 2006)
Lecturer, College of San Mateo, “The Year of Languages” Conference, Paper Delivered, “Cross-cultural Communications” (April 2005)
Lecturer, State University NY, Binghamton, NY, “Literature, Film and War” Paper Delivered, “Hollywood and Hegemony” (March 2004)
Lecturer, College of San Mateo, “Faces of Islam” Conference
Paper Delivered, “Debunking Orientalism: I am not a Terrorist” (March 2004)
Lecturer, CCHA Pacific-Western Division, Annual Conference, San Francisco. Paper Delivered, “Changing Focus: Teaching Film in the 21st Century” at “Rewriting the City” (November 2002)
Lecturer, University of Dramatic Arts, Tehran, Iran:
Paper Delivered, “American Media, Past, Present, Future” (August 2002)
Lecturer, Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University:
Paper Delivered, “The Unveiling of New Iranian Cinema” at “ID VIP, 2001” symposium
Lecturer, House of Cinema Festival, Tehran, Iran:
Paper Delivered, “Third World Cinema in the West” (July 2000)
Lecturer, Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University:
Paper Delivered, “Post-modernism and the Digital Technology” at “Changing Frame” symposium 2000
RADIO & TV INTERVIEWS
KCSM (Public Television) San Mateo, California. March 28, 2011, Topic: State of Education in California. Program: Bay Today. www.kcsm.org
KCSM (Public Television) San Mateo, California. May 14, 2010, Topic: Profile of exceptional Professor. Program: Bay Today. www.kcsm.org
KPFA 94.1 FM, (Public Radio) Berkeley, California. January 29, 2007, Topic: Cinema & Ideology. Program: Against the Grain – http://www.againstthegrain.org/archive.htm
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Co-Director of Modern Media Dialogue Project at Hutchins School of Liberal Arts, Sonoma State University
Scholar Member of Global Studies Association (North America) – www.globalstudiesassociation.org
Scholar Member of Radical Philosophy Association – www.radicalphilosophy.org
Scholar Member of Action Coalition for Media Education – www.acmecoalition.org
PHOTO EXHIBITS
Persian Moments II, Forthcoming
Faces of Islam, 2004
Persian Moments I, 2003
SCREENPLAYS WRITTEN
Shamlou the Planetary Poet, Work in Progress
An Imperial Message, 1999 (short based on Kafka’s story)
Mercury Retrograde, 1998 (Feature Film Noir)
FILMS AND VIDEOS
Shamlou the Planetary Poet, Work in Progress
Persian Moments, 2003
FOREIGN LANGUAGES
Farsi/Persian (fluent written and spoken)
Turkish/Azerbaijani (fluent spoken)
PERSONAL
Black Belt in Karate (Shotokan)
Member of ISKF (International Shotokan Federation)
REFERENCES
Provided Upon Request